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Someone from Andy's (Ed Helms) past is coming back on The Office, but this time he's singing a very different tune.
Josh Groban is returning as Andy's younger brother, Walter Jr., TVGuide.com has learned exclusively.
The Office's "new Jim" speaks! Jake Lacy calls joining the last season a "win-win"
Walter Jr. was first introduced last season, along with Andy's parents, at his garden party at Schrute Farms. Although it was made very clear that Walter Jr. was his parents' favorite — much to Andy's dismay — a lot has changed in the year since we last saw the Nard Dog's baby bro. In the Nov. 1 episode, titled "The Boat," Walter Jr. pops back up as a drunk who has fallen from grace.
In addition to The Office, Groban has also appeared on Glee and Crazy, Stupid, Love., in addition to his busy singing career.
The Office airs Thursdays at 9/8c on NBC.
Are you excited that Andy's brother is coming back to town? Will Andy be able to help Walter Jr. get back on his feet?


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Tuesday, December 09, 2008
Wow, this is cool. Silent Film Star Wars
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This is Bar Rosso, a stylish dining and gathering destination that celebrates the art of Italian food and wine. The menu at Bar Rosso is designed around a simple philosophy – good food that satisfies all of the senses.
Bar Rosso offers an unparalleled atmosphere. The bi-level space, with its high ceiling, wrap around mezzanine dining, and open-air seating offers guests a variety of experiences. The large stainless steel bar and wood-fired oven are the focal points of the restaurant and the industrial décor combines the old with the new, which is in keeping with Bar Rosso's overall food and wine philosophy.


text: I'm going to start a little mini-series with albums that didn't receive nearly enough attention this past year. The first selection is Shooting Spires' self-titled debut. Shooting Spires is BJ Warshaw of the ready-to-explode Brooklyn band Parts & Labor. There were lots of cryptic, noisy, and just plain weird bands that made big names for themselves this year like Health and Clipd Beaks, and most notably, Animal Collective. Shooting Spires shares a lot of the same terrain as those bands, but trades some of the weirdness in for anthemic melodies. The noise is all still there, mainly in the electronic elements, but for those of us who are still suckers for pop songs, it's catchy enough to warrant repeat listenings. Shooting Spires is an engrossing debut, and one of the better albums of 2007.


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This year, Britain's most dapper, charismatic spy turns 50, and his 23rd feature film Skyfall will be released in October. In honor of these two achievements, we are asking our readers to pick their favorite James Bond movie of all time.
And be sure to check out our feature by Lewis Beale, "Bond. James Bond."


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Cook this: Dinner Tonight
Inspiration for tonight's dinner -- rustic, light, Italian.
We've neatly condensed the recipes below, but to read the fully fleshed-out versions (and save and print them) just click on the recipe links or photos. Dinner is served!
The Menu:
Sicilian-Style Swordfish by cucinettaNYC
Any meaty white fish will take well to this sauce -- go for whatever's fished sustainably near you.
Tuscan Grilled Zucchini & Summer Squash by Stefano Coppola
Fire up the grill or a grill pan -- no judgment here!
The Grocery List:
- • 2 zucchini
- • 3 summer squash
- • sturdy skewers, soaked in hot water for an hour or so (if wooden)
- • 3 lemons
- • 2 red onions
- • 1 yellow onion
- • 1/3 cup sun-dried tomatoes packed in oil
- • 1/4 cup pitted oil-cured black olives coarsely chopped
- • 4 6-ounce swordfish steaks
- • Basil, for garnish
- • 1 sprig oregano
- • 4 sprigs rosemary
- • 1 head of garlic
We hope you have olive oil, red wine vinegar, capers, dry white wine, crushed red pepper, salt and freshly ground pepper on hand -- if not, it's time to stock up!
The Plan:
Get marinating: Pull together your marinade and get it into a large resealable plastic bag. Chop the zucchini and squash into 1-inch cubes and throw them in. Give the bag a quick Shake 'n Bake-esque motion and set it aside for now.
Onward to sauce: Mise en place your sauce. Using a large skillet, saute your onion and garlic in olive oil until lightly browned. Into the pool go the sun-dried tomatoes, olives, capers, wine and a generous pinch of crushed red pepper. Stir it all together, turn off the heat and transfer the sauce to a bowl. Don't clean the skillet!
Grill time: Tongs perched, fire up the grill so it's nice and hot when you're ready (or feel free to use a grill pan). Find a friend and slide the marinated vegetables onto skewers. Cut the red onions in half and place them on the grill, turn them occasionally and let them char on the outside. Sit them in a bowl covered in plastic wrap to steam. Grill skewers until the squash goes tender, 5-6 minutes total.
Focus on the fish: Liberally season the fish with salt and pepper on either side and place it in the skillet. Return skillet to medium-high heat, cover and cook for 3 minutes per side. When the fish, cooked through and nicely browned, place the steaks on plates or a platter and pour the warm sauce over them. Kill the heat.
The big finish: Peel and slice the onions and toss with the de-skewered zucchini and squash -- season with salt and pepper. Gently tear your basil and scatter like leaves across the fish.
Aside: Pour yourself another glass of cold and crispy white. You deserve it. Why? Because dinner is served.


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President Bush signed a bill last Wednesday that will allow federal workers aged 50 or older to contribute more money to their Thrift Savings Plan accounts.
The Senate passed the legislation on Nov. 13.
The bill, introduced by Rep. Connie Morella, R-Md., who lost her bid for re-election in November, would let older employees in the Federal Employee Retirement System or the Civil Service Retirement System contribute as much as $2,000 a year more to their TSP accounts starting in 2003.
Previously, workers in the Federal Employee Retirement System could contribute up to 13 percent of their paychecks to TSP accounts each year, up to an annual limit of $12,000. Civil Service Retirement System employees could contribute up to 8 percent of their paychecks, also up to a limit of $12,000.
This means that a 50-year-old employee in the Federal Employees Retirement System earning $50,000 a year could have contributed up to $6,500 to his 2003 TSP account, under the old rules. But under H.R. 3340, that employee would be able to deposit up to $8,500 in the account.
The catch-up limit will increase to $3,000 in 2004, $4,000 in 2005 and $5,000 in 2006 and succeeding years.
"The 'over 50 catch-up contribution' provision in the act will allow workers to make up for years when they were not employed, didn't contribute to their plan, or otherwise weren't able to serve," said Sen. Daniel Akaka, D-Hawaii, in a statement. "It is especially beneficial for women who have returned to the workforce after taking time off to raise families."
Higher contributions also allow workers to save money at tax time, since employees make TSP contributions on a pre-tax basis.
The bill also reauthorizes the Merit System Protection Board and the Office of Special Counsel. In addition, it allows some Overseas Private Investment Corporation employees to enroll in the Federal Employee Benefits Program.


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When Even The Librarians Are Against SOPA...
from the damn-pirates,-all-of-them dept
The libraries highlight two key concerns. The first is how Section 201(c) of SOPA appears to significantly change the definition of "willful" infringement. As you may know, under current Copyright law, if you're found guilty of "willful" infringement, statutory damages can rise from a maximum of $30k (for not willful) all the way up to a maximum of $150k. Plaintiffs in copyright lawsuits often claim every infringement is willful, but there are actual standards. SOPA appears to change the standard for willfulness in a massive way -- such that a lot more infringement would be deemed willful. In fact, it would go all the way to the level of saying nearly every infringement was willful (with the exception of "innocent" infringement, which is almost never allowed by courts).
This rule of construction creates a negative implication that a person is a willful infringer if the person did not have a good faith reasonable basis in law for believing that his conduct was lawful. Thus, if a court finds that the person's belief was unreasonable, the court might consider him a willful infringer, even if the person in good faith believed his actions were legal. Under current law, however, this level of intent constitutes ordinary infringement, not willful infringement. In other words, the rule of construction could have the effect of collapsing the three levels of intent into two: willful infringement and innocent infringement. The willful infringement level would swallow the ordinary infringement level, thereby significantly broadening the range of activities subject to criminal sanctions.Next up, the libraries point out that SOPA, unlike S.978 (the Senate's streaming bill), takes away the requirement that infringement be for commercial purposes to be declared criminal. For libraries, that's clearly a scary change. The libraries fear that under SOPA, they're hugely liable and at risk of being dragged into court:
In this environment, the criminal prosecution of a library for copyright infringement is no longer beyond the realm of possibility. For this reason, we strongly oppose the amendments described above, which would increase the exposure of libraries to prosecution. The broadening of the definition of willful infringement could result in a criminal prosecution if an Assistant U.S. Attorney believes that a library's assertion of fair use or one of the Copyright Act's other privileges is unreasonable. This risk is compounded with streaming, which SOPA would subject to felony penalties even if conducted without purpose of commercial advantage or private financial gain.Those damn "pirate" libraries, huh?


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Woods wins PGA title for 13th career majorPosted: Updated:
TULSA, Okla. - Tiger Woods won his second straight PGA Championship for his 13th major title and first this year. Woods fired a final-round 69 to win by two shots over Woody Austin. It's the fourth PGA title for Woods.
His 13 major titles moves Woods within five of the all-time mark held by Jack Nicklaus. The 30-year-old Woods is ahead of the pace of Nicklaus, who didn't win his 13th major until age 35.
Woods took command of the tournament Friday with a round of 63, tying the all-time low round in a major. He spent the weekend nursing a lead that ranged from two to five strokes.
Austin's 67 was good for second place, his best finish in a major. Ernie Els finished strong with a 66 to finish third. Arron Oberholser and John Senden tied for fourth
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If Congress fails to act during the lame-duck session, a series of onerous automatic federal spending cuts and tax hikes will go into effect on January 2, 2013. This budget battle has two major components:
Sequestration in particular would result in draconian cuts to federal programs that support the health, wellness, and livelihood of gay and transgender Americans and their families.
From workplace nondiscrimination protections to health care coverage to supporting our nation's elders, cuts in these programs would seriously harm gay and transgender Americans.
The fiscal showdown is looming, with a little longer than one month remaining before it possibly goes into effect. While policymakers work to hammer out an eleventh-hour deal to avoid devastating budget cuts, it is important to remember that we did not get to the edge of this metaphorical fiscal cliff by accident.
In 2011 Congress passed the Budget Control Act of 2011 as part of a deal to raise the ceiling on our nation's debt. As part of that deal, congressional Republicans held the nation's credit worthiness and economic recovery hostage to force painful and immediate spending cuts on the country, totaling more than $1 trillion over the 10-year period from 2012 through 2021.
In addition to these immediate cuts, the Budget Control Act also left Congress with the task of finding an additional $1.2 trillion to cut from the budget over the same 10-year period. In the fall of 2011 the congressional super committee, tasked with designing a plan to reduce the deficit by this amount, failed to produce an agreed-upon proposal. Unless Congress acts during the upcoming lame-duck session, automatic cuts to the federal budget—known as sequestration—will be triggered and will go into effect beginning in January 2013 so as to achieve the $1.2 trillion in deficit reduction as mandated by the Budget Control Act.
Additionally, a number of tax cuts are set to expire at the same time that sequestration is set to go into effect at the beginning of 2013, potentially creating a perfect storm that would simultaneously mandate across-the-board cuts to the federal budget and raise taxes on nearly all Americans. Economists agree: Failure to reach a resolution would hurt job growth, weaken our economic recovery, and impact all Americans.
Avoiding sequestration remains a critical policy goal for Congress. Doing so is important for all Americans, including gay and transgender Americans and their families. As this report details, many federal programs, both directly and indirectly, function to support and serve the gay and transgender population. If across-the-board budget cuts go into effect, this population will experience a host of negative outcomes, including the following:
The bottom line: Gay and transgender Americans simply cannot afford to be caught in the middle of the fiscal showdown. Reductions to federal programs under sequestration would be particularly harmful to gay and transgender people of color, a population that already experiences significant health disparities and economic vulnerabilities due to their double minority status.
Keep reading and check out the full report over at the Center for American Progress:


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Clues sparse in Dundee disappearance
UPDATE / Monday, Aug. 4, 1 p.m.:
Investigators are checking surveillance video from the Washington state ferry system to see if they can confirm a report that Huston was spotted Friday on the ferry out of Anacortes to Friday Harbor in the San Juan Islands.
A couple who notified deputies told KPTV they saw a woman matching Huston's description driving a car that matched Huston's car, including a cracked windshield.
San Juan County Undersheriff Bruce Distler says the tip is worth checking out.
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UPDATE / Friday, Aug. 4, 4 p.m.:
Capt. Tim Svenson of the Yamhill County Sheriff's Office said the agency will not continue to search in an "organized" fashion for Jennifer Huston, the missing 38-year-old Dundee woman.
Svenson emphasized that deputies on routine patrol will continue to look for any signs of Huston and/or her vehicle.
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DUNDEE — Desperate for new angles to explore in the mysterious disappearance of 38-year-old Dundee mother Jennifer Huston, authorities opened a new front in their search effort Thursday afternoon — the San Juan Islands in northern Washington.
Noting she grew up in Gig Harbor, regarded the San Juans as a favorite getaway, and was headed north went her cell phone went dead at 6:35 p.m. Thursday, July 24, they forwarded a bulletin on her to the San Juan County Sheriff's Office.
Since they have no evidence a crime was committed, they have no standing to search her medical and phone records, even though her husband has signed off on that. That hampers their efforts to develop fresh leads, so they have few new avenues they can pursue.
Huston left to run some errands, leaving her two young boys home with her husband of almost 10 years, and never returned. When her cell phone went dead following routine stops at a gas station, ATM and drug store, it only added to the mystery.
Intense searches by air along the Willamette River and rural Yamhill County roads Wednesday yielded no new clues.
The lead agency, the Newberg-Dundee Police Department, said the effort was organized by the family. They said helicopters based at the Hillsboro Airport took part.
Meanwhile, the Yamhill County Sheriff's Office searched the Willamette River from Dayton to Wilsonville, looking for places where her Lexus SUV, Oregon license plate WHX-011, could have gone into the water. And law enforcement personnel were joined by friends and relatives in searching Bald Peak, Trask Mountain and the Gaston area.
Authorities have asked law enforcement agencies to be on the lookout for Huston, or her vehicle, in Alaska, California and Idaho as well as Oregon and Washington. The ferries serving the San Juan Islands lack automated license plate readers, but such devices are being used in other locales to supplement the human eye.
Additional searches were planned today, including an aerial search of the western and central parts of Yamhill County.
Huston was reported missing about 5:30 a.m. Friday — about 12 hours after she left home — by her husband, Kallen. Close relatives always get a good look, but authorities said he had been fully cooperative and had passed a polygraph test.
Video surveillance captured her at three Newberg locations — a bank ATM where she drew out "less than $100," a Circle K where she gassed up and a Rite Aid where she purchased Gatorade, trail mix and a mile, over-the-counter sleeping aid. She made the stops in relatively quick succession and appeared to be alone.
Authorities said her phone then went dead, or was turned off. They said there had been no record of bank, phone or credit card activity since, let alone sightings of her or her car, despite intense publicity through traditional media, social media and law enforcement channels.
They estimated the range of her vehicle on a full tank of gas at 300 to 350 miles. They were using that as a rough guide to search efforts.
Police said her car was dark green in color. They said it featured a Yakima sky rank up top and a U-shaped crack in the passenger side of the windshield.
They described her as a 5-foot-7 woman of average build, with blonde shoulder-length hair and blue eyes. They said she was wearing black-and-pink shoes and black yoga pants when she left home.
Capt. Jeff Kosmicki said the Newberg-Dundee police had five detectives working the case, but had turned up no evidence of foul play so far. He said they are treating her disappearance as a "missing and endangered" case at this point.
"Obviously, her leaving and not contacting anybody is suspicious in that regard," he said. "But we're keeping all of our options open.
"The detectives have been on this from the beginning. They spent Saturday and Sunday developing timelines, getting to know her habits.
Kosmicki said her husband had been helping them every step of the way.
"Kallen has been completely forthcoming," he said. "He's done everything we've asked him to do."
He also said, "We have interviewed the 6-year-old child" — the elder of the two.
Members of the extended family have been doing their part by mounting an extensive social media campaign. They established a "Find Jennifer Huston" Facebook page that had amassed more than 41,000 likes by Thursday morning.
Kallen Huston was joined by other members of the family — including Jennifer's parents, who live in Clark County, Washington — at a press briefing earlier this week. He made a statement and took a few questions.
He acknowledged, "We still have a lot of ties to Gig Harbor. She still has friends that live there, and parents of friends who live there.
But he said, "We have friends everywhere — in Texas, in Japan, in Malaysia."
He said, "This is totally unlike her. She's a devoted mother. She's a good person. I think all of our friends would agree about that.
"We have a good, solid relationship. We're close to celebrating 10-year wedding anniversary, and we've know each other 17 years."
She had been experiencing headaches for about three days prior to her disappearance, but had not begun taking any medication or scheduled any doctor's appointments in response.
Any tips or leads should be referred to lead Detective Ryan Simmons at 503-554-8954 or firstname.lastname@example.com. The Newberg-Dundee Communications Center can be reached by dialing 911 in an emergency or 503-583-8321 otherwise.


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It's 2009 and Fast and Furious is back. The cars, the music, the racing is all back including Dom Toretto. This Fast and Furious could well be called an interquel as it's set 5 years after the first movie but before the Tokyo Drift movie. Apparently Vin Diesel wanted to make a proper movie and the best time to set it was after the first movie instead of faffing around with the story lines from the latter two movies.
The movie starts how it means to go on with a high octane snatch and grab of fuel. Dom and Letty are still together with a new group containing some new characters and Brian isn't far behind. After the snatch and grab Dom realises he needs to cut away before the whole team are taken down by the cops and leaves Letty with the gang.
Dom and Brian end up crossing paths in LA and briefly fight each other before realising they are about to fight a common enemy. During the explosive plot the duo are together till the end with plenty of woah and holy crap high speed moments. I had heard there was a lack of cars in the film however I believe there were just enough to keep the story on track and the film entertaining unlike some of the previous films where they dragged.
An all round good movie if you're into the Fast and Furious series.
If you'd like to see the trailer before buying your tickets, head over to Moovees (one of my sites where I collate film trailers).
The Fast & Furious OST is pretty good and the tracks are featured below;
- Rye Rye – Bang (feat. M.I.A.)
- Busta Rhymes – G-Stro
- Kenna – Loose Wires
- Pitbull – Blanco (feat. Pharrell)
- Pitbull – Krazy (feat. Lil Jon)
- Pitbull – You Slip, She Grip (feat. Tego Calderon)
- Shark City Click – Head Bust
- Pitbull – Bad Girls (feat. Robin Thicke)
- Don Omar – Virtual Diva
- Tasha – La Isla Bonita
- Pitbull – Blanco (feat. Pharrell)


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Established & Sons / V&A Museum
Plinths I and II are made from Corian, a performance material usually associated with counter tops due to its durability, non-porosity and seamlessness. In this example the design uses the V&A museum courtyard as the context for the bench, rather than shaping material merely to make an isolated piece for visual interest. The two Plinths share the same design, but are of different heights and lengths; when placed together they create an opportunity for people to complete the sculpture.
Bench Years, Victoria & Albert Museum, London, 2012
Interieur, Kortrijk, Belgium, 2011
Two Timer
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Many cities, with London no exception, continue to experience the mass movement of people. It's as if everyone these days has come from somewhere else. The Two Timer Clock acknowledges this modern condition with two clocks sharing the same dial. The clock utilises two quartz movements with a carefully devised dial that serves both time zones. The clock is housed in a pressed aluminium frame for strength, with a silkscreened glass face.
Best Graphic Product, Creative Review, 2009
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San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (SFMOMA)
Israel Museum, Jerusalem
Less and More, the Work of Dieter Rams, San Francisco, 2012
Some Recent Projects, Design Museum London, 2008
Turn, Twist and Branch Off, Aram Store, London, 2011
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When a child draws a light, they not only draw the source of the light, but also they try to draw the quality of light itself - as if light were an object. This simple idea is involved in 'Beam'. It's an illustration of light itself as it emanates from a metal shade. Using a contrasting pallette of spun metal and blown glass, Beam provides a combination of ambient and directional light, seamlessly combined. Beam is presented in variations of colour in the formats of pendant, table and floor lights.
Grand Design Award for Lighting, 2008
Some Recent Projects, Design Museum London, 2009
Turn, Twist and Branch Off, Aram Store, London, 2011
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It was while riding the Tokyo Yamanote line, that we noticed that the seating appeared as long red benches, free of any arm rests that would normally divide it into individual seats. To overcome the problem of seat assignment, the bench had one pink coloured zone - the size of a chair - so that the first person to enter the train would unconsciously gravitate towards this pink part and sit down. This first passenger had effectively sub-divided the rest of the bench for everyone else, so that no space was lost, as the train got fuller along its journey.
What if there was a bench that used a chair to create a sitting zone. Table, Bench, Chair uses this observation to form a highly flexible matrix of different functions where its flexibility also results in its oddity.
An oak plank acts as the bench that can be of varying lengths. Bent wood is used to deleniate the chair, with a corresponding concave soffit to give a little more comfort. Table, Bench, Chair can be used for the hallway of a home, waiting areas, lobbies and set-down areas.
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Turn, Twist and Branch Off, Aram Store, London, 2011
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Prawn and Rice Noodle Salad
2 garlic cloves
2 tablespoons sugar
1 tablespoon light soy sauce
1 tablespoon wine vinegar
1 tablespoon sesame oil
1 red chile
2 ounces dried rice noodles
2½ ounces shiitake mushrooms
1 large carrot
1 large zucchini
6 ounces large, cooked prawns, peeled
1 tablespoon sesame seeds
2 tablespoons chopped cilantro
For the dressing: Press the garlic cloves through a garlic press and mix with the sugar, soy sauce, wine vinegar and sesame oil in a small bowl. Cut the chile in half lengthwise, remove the seeds and then cut into very fine strips. Mix into the dressing.
For the salad: Cut the noodles in 4-inch lengths. Cook in boiling water according to package directions. Drain thoroughly and refresh under cold water. Drain again.
Trim the mushrooms and slice finely. Add to the dressing and mix thoroughly. Cut the carrot and zucchini into fine julienne or matchstick strips.
Place the noodles in a bowl and add the mushrooms with dressing, the carrot and zucchini, and the prawns. Toss the salad well to combine all the ingredients. Sprinkle with the sesame seeds and chopped cilantro to serve.
Serves four.
Nutrition values per serving: 194 calories (25.7 percent from fat), 5.5 g fat (0.8 g saturated), 24 g carbohydrates, 3.1 g fiber, 13.3 g protein, 65 mg cholesterol, 207 mg sodium.


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The Barton softball team is winning all the games it should. The Cougars earned two more of those wins Thursday afternoon with a sweep of Brown Mackie at Cougar Fields.
LAWRENCE (AP) - Jamari Traylor handed Kansas forward Perry Ellis a pair of navy blue scissors to take the final snips of the net, and with them the crowd in Allen Fieldhouse began to chant his name.
As part of Barton Community College's ongoing commitment to campus safety, the college's Campus Safety Office has announced the launch of Rave Guardian, a free mobile app that turns any smartphone into a personal safety device. By downloading this free safety app, students and faculty can enhance their personal safety both on and off campus.
Alcoholics Anonymous
The Great Bend Toastmasters group held its most recent meeting Feb. 11 at the Great Bend Public Library. Emily Durr was presented with a made-from-scratch pie as the winner of the January membership contest.
Barton Community College's music department will present "The Addams Family: A New Musical Comedy" at 7:30 p.m. Friday and Saturday, March 4 and 5, and at 2 p.m. Sunday, March 6 in the Fine Arts Auditorium.
The Barton Community College Foundation will kick off its Annual Academic Enrichment Fund Campaign titled "Education Changes Everything" on March 1. Judy and Earl Fox will serve as honorary cochairs for the month-long fundraising drive.
BAZINE - Esther Bruntz, 92, died at Ness County Hospital, Feb. 26, 2016. She was born on Dec. 12, 1923, in Darrouzett, Texas, the daughter of George and Mollie (Fritzler) Schoenhals. She married Sam Bruntz on Sept. 14, 1950.
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The Knicks are playing at an incredibly slow pace. This one stands out above all else. The Knicks are averaging about 89 possessions per 48 minutes, which is last in the league, and not a number that's skewed by one especially slow game or anything. Each of New York's three wins was down around there. How is this the case? I'd guess it's because the Knicks are taking excellent care of the ball (the league's fifth-lowest turnover percentage), cutting off first options with great defense, and running plenty of motion on offense before they look to score. Recall that the Knicks were near the top in pace factor last season, and also keep in mind that Philadelphia and Miami were both relatively slow teams last season (Miami's played a couple high-possession games since losing to the Knicks, but they were 15th last year), so we'll see how this changes after games against teams that want to play faster.
Robert Silverman of the Times' Off the Dribble blog made similar observations about the Knicks' slow pace on offense to start the season, which is clearly in stark contrast to the Mike D'Antoni era.
I'm personally something of an agnostic when it comes to pace, I don't really have a philosophy when it comes to low possession/high possession offensive systems, I generally think it has more to do with what personnel you have, or individual matchups against a given team. But again this is only a three-game sample, as Seth notes against two teams who generally played slow a season ago, which could account for the stark change, as well.
Given that the Knicks currently rank second in the league in offensive efficiency according to Basketball Reference I don't really care how they're doing it, and if I did have any particular aversion to D'Antoni it was kind of a reflexive wariness of coaches who have systems that personnel must be catered to as opposed to adjusting what you do to fit your personnel.
Anyway, will be interesting to see how this shake's out, just a three-game trend that will even out over time, or a clear change in philosophy from D'antoni to Woodson, or maybe a little bit of both?


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So, in the middle of taking a shower, I began to ponder over a number of things in Sam 3 that I would've loved to see changed, tested, or outright redesigned. The amount of ideas that popped into mind are of overwhelming proportion, so I figured "Eh, why not use the forums to spew out all my trash opinions". I wouldn't be surprised if a thread like this has already existed, but rather than potentially necro said thread, starting a new one seems relatively harmless.
Sam 3 is a game that I've played very often and subsequently grown to love, but there are obviously a number of flaws in it that people have voiced over the past 5 years. The setting, the gameplay elements, etc. I think Sam 3 had potential to be something much greater than the end-product, and I won't chalk that up simply to having a deadline to meet. There are numerous design choices that I found disagreeable or needed some form of tweaking, so here's how we're breaking things down:
We'll cover a broad range of categories that make up the gameplay elements of Sam 3 (and if there are any which I've missed, feel free to address them yourself). There's Sam's abilities, Monsters, Weapons, Setting, and Battles. There are no limits to what you can imagine you'd change or add if you were a master developerprogrammerdesignerwhatever. Alternately, if there are things about Sam 3 which you did like but felt needed adjustments (I sit in that category), I encourage you to share them.
Sam's Abilities
Sam's basic athleticism - Understandably, Sam's default running speed was brought down to more of a jogging pace to compensate for the smaller, realistically scaled world. Nevertheless, I would slightly increase Sam's regular running speed, as well as remove movement slowdown encountered in underground or building sections. Sam's jump height I would leave unmodified.
Reloading, Aiming, and Sprinting - I am personally comfortable with all of these new features, they do add an interesting layer to the gameplay.
Just to note, I may bring up path-finding improvements for certain monsters, as it is still of a somewhat primitive nature in the final product. Notably, enemy usage would broadly increase, mixing different monsters with each other to create interesting battles.
Female Gnaar - I would improve Gnaar AI by allowing them to take a chomp at the player as a slightly higher damaging attack. I would allow them to climb over walls of a certain height independently, and also give them the ability to punch down most objects or breakable stone walls obstructing their path. If a player were to stand on top of a breakable wall, Gnaars would actively destroy the wall to bring the player down to their level.
Beheaded Rocketeer - otherwise known as cannon fodder. I don't know who thought that placing multiple armies after armies of purple people was an interesting concept, but given how downgraded these enemies are, I would recommend making them somewhat more intimidating if you're going to pull that kind of stunt.
I would decrease their reload times and rate of fire for their missile launchers, as well as allow them to cancel out firing animations to kick a player away if he/she inches too close.
New Enemy: Beheaded Firecracker - Having these enemies included would encourage players to stay on their toes and jump to avoid the trail of fireballs. Similarly to the Rocketeers, they would act more aggressively toward someone invading their personal space.
New Enemy: Beheaded Bomber - Another method of encouraging players to stay on the move, bombers have potential to not only be used as basic ground forces, but additionally can be placed strategically on higher ledges. Again, like the Rocketeers and Firecrackers, they won't hesitate to kick a player away if he/she is in melee range.
Beheaded Kamikaze - I recall in the "Making of" movie for this game, they showed a Kamikaze actively climbing on top of debris or cars to reach the player. Kamikazes should climb shit. They have a target, and they'll use any method they can to reach their target.
Antaresian Spiders - Placement and movement is more key than anything. I would have spiders perched on ceilings or clinging to the walls (especially in some of the tomb sections), and if the player chooses to ignore them, the spiders would actively abandon their positions to pursue their prey, and continue to behave as they would normally zerg-rush the player.
Cloned Soldiers - I would force their cover system a little less, and also give them abilities similar to the Orc Soldiers from Sam II; Cloned Soldiers could be considered more elite monsters by having the advantage of strafing and firing simultaneously, breaking away from conventional "stop and shoot" tactics which most enemies in Sam games use.
Sirian Werebull - As per Sam's movement speed increase, Werebull speeds would also receive a respective speed boost to match that of the player.
Technopolyp - Firstly, these fuckers should not be immune to bullets/shells/lasers. I would recommend giving them a 50% increase to these forms of damage, merely encouraging the use of explosives, rather than forcing it. Secondly, Technopolyps should have a "Stun" animation, whereupon receiving enough damage, a part of the helicopter explodes, temporarily leaving it unable to defend itself. Thirdly, I would decrease their machinegun damage by a reasonable sum.
Scythian Witch-Harpy - The first problem is how Harpies cannot exactly use a diving swoop effectively unless placed in a very large open environment. I would modify it so that if there isn't enough space for a Harpy to lunge for a melee attack, it would instead cast spells. Speaking of which, I would increase the spell-cast rate a bit, then decrease their recovery time after a failed swoop, and enlarge their hitboxes to make them less awkward to hit. Their flinching properties would also be changed so that they do not always flinch backwards no matter what angle they're shot from. Their melee attack would only be avoidable by strafing out of the way, moving backwards in a straight line would not suffice unless the player were to sprint away.
Lastly, with all of these stats being modified, I would use them in more levels. Those wide open Egyptian temples just beg to have aerial forces added to them.
Cave Demon - Increase the aggressive attack patterns, but I would also remove some sections sprawling with them entirely.
Khnum - Instead of making them immune to bullets/shells/lasers, I would give them a whopping 75% resistance to these damage types. Next, I would change the requisite for their sprinting attack. They would have to either close in further or wait for the player to charge them, before proceeding to sprint forward and attempt a quick stomp or claw punch, before returning to a normal attack pattern. Fireball projectile speed should be slowed just by a little, to give the player a better fighting chance. If surrounded by foot soldiers while approaching the player, Khnums could swipe up a nearby underling and use it as a makeshift projectile against Sam, which can only be avoided like a large Lava Golem's projectile (immediately moving in the opposite direction after the Khnum has launched it). If it were a regular foot soldier, it would die upon impact with Sam or the ground. If it were a Kamikaze, it would obviously explode under either circumstance. I'd also make them less compulsive to stop and slowly tear down a column or pillar, these enemies are supposed to be fierce. They ought to simply smash the pillars with the swing of an arm while moving in Sam's direction.
Finally, I would give them an additional stun animation: In Single-player, should Sam use the Mutilator against a Khnum, after about 75% charge time, the Khnum would be brought to its knees, leaving it vulnerable to attack for a small amount of time, before rising back up to chase the player again.
Given these new strengths and weaknesses, I would increase the amount of Khnums in the game, but not to an excessive degree. Just enough to make battles more interesting, to encourage the player to adapt in a situation where Khnums are mixed with different kinds of foes.
Witch-Bride of Achriman - Replace the choking attack with two varying attacks: If an environment has destructible architecture, Witch-Brides should be able to telekinetically throw a varying amount of objects towards Sam (typically, one object at a time), where each piece of debris can be destroyed easily with your weapons. The second attack is a mass spell-summoning, although these projectiles themselves would be indestructible, they would not home in towards the player.
Ugh-Zan IV - The final boss fight could be enhanced by initiating a "Phase 2" battle, much akin to Solais' Serious Sam 3: Extended mod. Only, during phase 2, I would rid of all pre-existing enemies and disable the infinitely respawning ones. On a personal level, infinitely respawning enemies really feels like a fake difficulty spike.
Side note: introductions of specific weapons would probably be re-evaluated, and most ammo types that are presently uncommon would be strategically increased.
Melee Attacks - While performing a melee attack, Sam should gain temporary invulnerability, and a remaining boost of invincibility after finishing the attack if it's of a particularly lengthy nature. So, for example, if it were an attack against a horde of rocketeers or cloned soldiers, the invincibility would not last long enough to be abused. If it were a melee finish against a Gnaar or a Kleer, there would be about .5 to 1 second of invincibility afterwards. Against a Scrapjack, about 3 seconds of invulnerability upon finishing.
New melee attacks:
Bomber: Sam simply kicks the bomber away, causing one of its bombs to discharge when he lands on the ground, instantly killing it and damaging everyone around him.
Harpy: Sam grabs it by the throat and tears the "mask" off, before proceeding to punch it in the face, with enough force to knock it dead.
Sirian Bracelet - I would increase the amount of targets you could wrangle, including up to two large enemies simultaneously. Charge times may remain the same.
Sledgehammer - Increase the hitbox of the Sledge's attack very slightly. As for the spin-attack... I dunno, maybe by initiating it, the game forces you into third-person mode, and Sam screams incoherently while swinging? Otherwise, it hardly serves a purpose, and I don't know what to do with it.
SOP38 - Give the weapon a small damage increase, and a 12-shot magazine. Enable auto-fire.
12 Gauge - Increase the fire rate by about .5 seconds, and decrease the reload time by 1 second. Enable auto-fire.
Double Barrel - Increase the fire rate by .5 seconds, and give it two additional pellets for potential one-shot kills against minor biomechs. Enable auto-fire.
AS24 Devastator - Change the drum-capacity from 20 shots to 10, making it less of what feels like a direct upgrade from the Rocket Launcher.
RAPTOR Sniper Rifle - In order to maintain its status as a secret weapon, tougher opponents would be more vulnerable to Sniper Rifle bullets:
Adult Arachnoid: dies in 2 shots instead of 5.
Major Biomechanoid: dies in 4 shots instead of 5.
Witch-Bride: dies in 2 shots instead of 3.
Technopolyp: dies in 4 shots instead of none.
Khnum: dies in 6 shots instead of none.
Naturally, this would make this weapon stupidly broken in Jewel of the Nile. But I'm sure that could be easily rectified by decreasing the ammo pickups in that pack.
Since I'm talking about the main game, however, I would add a couple of more secret sniper rifles/sniper ammo caches here and there.
XL2 Lasergun - Similarly, being a secret weapon only, I would merely add a couple of more lasergun/cell ammo caches in throughout the game.
I actually don't really mind the setting.
Generally, when it comes to enemy placement, Sam 3 did not exercise the use of its resources exceptionally, what with some levels just throwing hordes of a single type rather than mixing and matching. With all of my ideas listed above, there would be a large number of things I would be itching to experiment with, but rather than make this post needlessly lengthier, I'll just list some combinations I had in mind:
Khnums and Foot Soldiers - Kamikazes, Rocketeers, and Firecrackers attack while a Khnum lumbers forward and starts tossing nearby Kamikazes in your direction.
Kamikazes and Gnaars - A dangerous proposal, but puts the players ability to prioritize targets at an intense high.
So, those are all of my idea. There's probably a lot of balancing problems to be found, but hey, I enjoyed just getting these ideas out there. How would you go about changing things?
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Re: How would you design the game?
I love my sea of headless men with purple shirts.
I'd keep the game as it is but place more Minigun, Devostator, and Cannon ammo throughout the game (or combine Minigun ammo with AR ammo), remove the need for flashlights by giving underground levels proper lighting (or just removing underground levels), remove the Space Monkey and Clone Troopers, give the Witch-Bride her SamVR attack, change Arachnoids' and Technopolips' attacks to projectile bullets, and make explosives-only enemies damageable by all weapons.
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Wow you failed so much in Life, that you need such things as fun. - GnaarwarianLast hax0red by Jetroid; 01-01-1970 at 12:00 AM.
Re: How would you design the game?
I'd remove clone soldiers, tomb levels and space monkeys and make technopolips shoot rockets.
(BTW, what's Witch-Bride's attack in VR? I didn't watch too much of gameplay videos.)
I'd also give the assault rifle a bit more "oomph", because I love that weapon and do that to pretty much all other weapons that felt weak.
Also, Sorry for a little off topic, but I just really want to say something and I don't want to make a thread that could be possibly pointless.
I was looking through the files of SS3 I found some "mace" weapon based on what the folder said? I don't remember. I'm not sure if anyone else has found it, but it only had a sounds folder AFAIK. It sounded like a sledgehammer replacement or something.
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- I'll name the levels, based on their locations;
- Map-styled loading screen;
- I'll put more traps and jump & run elements in the tombs;
- In Karnak and Luxor would reuse some level layouts from FE, but they won't dominate the level at all, more like comeo. For example - column yard from Luxor, or remains of the hall of the rising obelisk;
- Tomb parts are designed too repetitively. First, we need to separate it in own levels; Second - combine it with different jump&run elements.
- Put all missing oldies back in the action - beheaded bombers and firecrackers, marsh-hoppers, etc;
- Instead of two battles with the warship, I'll add three swarm-boss battles: the first at the end of "Under the Iron Cloud" - swarm of marsh-hopper; second one - maybe in the Gathering of the Gods - swarm of antaresian spiders, inside the temple, crawling through all the walls, and the third - "Lost temples of Nubia", inside of temple ruins, forming an arena, where you can jump in from somewhere high, and then unlocks when you deal with all the enemies - here you must deal with marsh-hoppers and spiders at the same time;
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Oh man, this is turning into a "we can do it better" place. I've never been disappointed in a Serious Sam game. As long as Croteam learns from the strengths and weaknesses of previous games (which they seem to do) I trust this will be the best Serious Sam yet.
I do wish for big, colorful and distinct levels. The levels of Sam3 sorta blended into each other for me in the middle, and Sam2 did a much better job at creating memorable locations despite having some weak design. Enemy immunity to certain weapons to me is a huge no-no in a frantic shooter, just like taking away player movement/ability to defend oneself.
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Re: How would you design the game?
I would remove reloading. Or actually replace it with anti-reloading. Some sort of charge that you could release after firing a lot of bullets.
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How about an option in the menu?
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My thought process on the idea is "if there were no deadlines or limitations to what you could design, how would you do it?", it was never meant to piss on the developers.
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Well that makes more sense. I always thought Gears of War did reloading right: You can either press reload and wait it out like a standard FPS, or use the risk/reward button prompt to either reload your weapon faster, reload faster and do additional damage for a bit or mess it up and reloading takes a bit longer.
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Re: How would you design the game?
It's a bit difficult for me to go into design side of the game when it comes to actual gameplay or level-design without turning the whole point to "what was bad in SS3 and how they could've fixed it". But I would certainly make some changes and additions to the story.
First of all it comes to the characters — I'd try to make them more memorable and interesting through their relationships with Sam, give them a bit more background and certainly not killing half of them in the first half of the game as it feels very, very cheap. Adding some snippets of information into Netricsa about Sam and his friends would be one of the ways to give more background to the characters without breaking the pace, and having more cut-scenes and brief talks between Sam and other guys would be nice as well. Once again, NPC's could be used in a similar way to SS2: for example, a helicopter pilot (Garrett, Wilson or Hellfire) could help you on the battlefield by throwing off supplies and ammo before some battles e.t.c..
Developing the world is another important narrative task, which can be improved by so called "environmental stories", when storywriter must cooperate with artists and designers to create interesting little scenes that could contain some unspoken backstory of the places and scenes that player visit in the game. Just minor details, like a bulletin board containing notes and photos of Cairo refugees, dead bodies of EDF soldiers on the barricades, small objects and stuff left by people in their houses or streets, like kids toys or newspapers or audiomessages and tapes containing some songs. Anything like that. Some distinctive graffities - not those boring arabian notes but actual paintings - would be nice as well.
Another important change would be Sam himself, his attitude and backstory. What I didn't like about SS3 is how they almost retconned his role of a person who was chosen to travel to the past, being one of the most famous and strongest veterans of this war. I understand how they tried to make him look strong and serious than other people by his actions - he proved himself by surviving through the battles, but still, I'd left some cues and tips about him being somewhat special person, hence there are multiple interesting ways to do that imho. One of the ways I had in my mind for some years (and planned to incude into my fiction story, but... eh) could be referring to Sam and his past in one of the dialogs between him and Rodriguez/Quinn, uncovering that he was actually among the first candidates for Charlie Team but got rejected in the end because of some unexplained or vague reasons. May be even due to his past (Surveyor *wink*). Another way to make Sam or, in our case, the player feel special about the protag. is to have some heavy inspirational scene. This is where I come to the last major change I'd make in SS3: change the ending.
As I mentioned before, I wouldn't kill some characters early in the game. I'd most likely keep Rodriguez alive for some time, may be up until the Lost Temples of Nubia. I'd swap Hellfire death scene with Quinn, making Hellfire escape the battle by Quinn's order to help Sam. First of all, I think it would be better to leave some cues to Sam and Hellfire having a small and brief "romantic pause" when preparing to leave their time. Secondary, I'd give Hellfire another task - for example, she should protect or prepare the Time Lock for the travel while Sam is battling with Ugh-Zan IV. Finally, I'd still kill her (almost) to increase the already sad emotional tension of the ending, while at the same time once again bring some inspirational moment and let the player feel this special nature of Sam and importance of his task. Hellfire is badly wounded, all covered in blood. She won't last long, and they both understand it, yet Sam still desperatly tries to do something. Yet there's no time at all, new Mental troops are on their way to Time Lock, and Mental starts his final "mooning" plan. Sam can't choose what he should do - jump into the portal or try to save the girl. In this very difficult moment Hellfire calms him down by saying how special he is and always were. She tells him there's only one thing left to do and value, and it's time. "It's your time, Sam. It has come. Find Mental and kick his ass. And remember, that all of us will always believe in you, being either in heaven or hell." (this is also a ref to "cursed become the martyrs" in the final song). And that's when Sam finds a courage and runs into the portal with his "See ya in 3000BC, Mental..." speech. I know it's probably cringy or unnecessary dramatic, but I think it'd be an even more emotional and powerful ending, kinda akin to SW2013, and I would certainly do it if I had a chance to design SS3.
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While I agree that more effort could be put into world-building, I disagree that Sam should be special.
I'm actually sort of glad they retconned him to be a (somewhat?) regular joe in SS3 because he earned the right to wear his favorite outfit into combat situations by having proven that kevlar makes no difference for him instead of being a super soldier or a chosen one or having descended from some kind of special ancestry. He's a guy who made a big mistake and has more than redeemed himself but people still underestimate him and think he was just lucky (thus not being a part of Charlie Team) and when he finally goes to Sirius and kill Mental, no one will know of the sacrifices he did. But he still does it anyway because that's what heroes do.
And yes, I agree that Rodriguez should've stayed alive longer. One of my favorite things about SS3 is how it all looks just like a standard military operation (the twist is that they're against Mental, which is why it's cool), but the only place to talk about Sam's past is for Rodriguez to make witty comments to Sam or else it'll just be out of place. Also, I think killing off Hellfire in Last Man on Earth is a good choice. Sam always puts mission first because he knows that redeeming himself by killing Mental is worth it for all the lives he couldn't save.
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For patients with esophageal cancer, tumors can make swallowing difficult. In such a case, PDT is a palliative treatment that kills the tumor to ease swallowing.
The Photodynamic Therapy Center at the Leo W. Jenkins Cancer Center, jointly supported by Pitt County Memorial Hospital and the Brody School of Medicine at East Carolina University, began treating patients in 2001. It is one of only a handful of cancer centers in the state using the technology.
"We are the only multi-disciplinary photodynamic therapy program treating multiple organs," Downie, a pulmonologist and assistant professor of internal medicine at ECU, said. The center treats patients with tumors in eight sites in the body, with lung tumors, breast and chest wall tumors, and skin cancers such as melanoma being the three most frequently receiving PDT.
Since April 2001, the program has treated 83 patients and evaluated more than 300 patients. "We end up treating only about one out of every three or four patients," Downie said. "We are very careful and conservative, and we treat patients only when we have proper indications for the therapy."
He explained that PDT can be used either for palliative care or for a cure, but the clinical definition for an attempt for a cure is strict, such as early-stage lung cancer or esophageal cancer patients who cannot have surgery because of other medical reasons.
"If your problematic symptoms are associated with the tumor itself, such as a tumor in the esophagus which is keeping you from swallowing, then PDT will help you. It's a palliative treatment, which means it helps the patient feel better. The goal of our program is to gather enough clinical data that the standard of care for cancer will include PDT as an option for patients," he said.
In PDT, photosensitizing agents are given to the patient and absorbed by cells all over the body, but for unknown reasons they stay longer in the cancer cells. When the treated cancer cells are exposed to laser light of a specific frequency a few days after the injection, the photosensitizing agent, Photofrin, absorbs the light and produces a form of energy that destroys the treated cancer cells.
PDT causes minimal damage to the surrounding healthy tissue and does not interfere with any other treatments the patient may receive.
Photodynamic therapy uses a diode laser, which emits the specific frequency of light needed to kill the tumor but produces no heat to damage the healthy tissue. For patients with lung tumors, a bronchoscope is used to deliver the laser light to the treatment area.
The major side effect that patients encounter is sensitivity to sunlight for weeks after treatment. Because the photosensitizing agents can take up to three months to leave the body, patients must wear long sleeves, broad-brimmed hats and gloves to protect against second-degree burns from the sun.
"Photodynamic therapy is an excellent weapon to use in conjunction with chemotherapy, surgery and radiation. Photodynamic therapy can control local cancerous disease with little or no side effects, which profoundly improves patient pain, ability to perform activities of daily life and overa
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Lydia Spitzer Demonstration Forest dedicated
by Bethany M. Dunbar
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CHARLESTON — "I can't imagine anything I would be more proud to be associated with," said Lydia Spitzer at the dedication of the Lydia Spitzer Demonstration Forest at the NorthWoods Stewardship Center on Friday.
Ms. Spitzer donated 1,300 acres to the center in 2008. She had donated conservation easements to the Vermont Land Trust in 2007. It is the largest donation the land trust has ever received, Tracy Zschau, regional director of the trust, said Friday.
"All I did was buy a piece of land a long time ago," said Ms. Spitzer.
She said when she bought the land in 1993, she had thought she might be a visionary entrepreneur and start an enterprise with a school, trails, and other features that would support nature, forestry, and conservation.
She said by her fiftieth birthday when she had not done it, she thought it might be better to connect with her neighbors instead. Coincidentally Bill Manning had created the Vermont Leadership Center in 1989 with some of the same goals in mind. In the beginning the center owned no land at all, but in 2005 it got about 100 acres. The name and structure changed and the center became the NorthWoods Stewardship Center.
Ms. Spitzer has been more than a neighbor all along — more like a friend and fan. She described her relationship with the center as: "the absolute joy of being in love with this organization."
She said the staff and board of NorthWoods are the ones who should get the credit, along with her grandfather, Ward Canaday, who made money during World War II with a company called the Willis Overland company that produced Jeeps used in the war.
Mr. Canaday made enough money to start a large trust, and the Canaday Trust has supported lots of arts and educational causes over the years. In the fall, the NorthWoods Stewardship Center was awarded a grant from Canaday of $185,000 to create the Forest Stewardship Institute. The grant will cover staff and the institute's purpose will be to teach sustainable forestry practices to landowners and others.
There are already some hiking trails on the land, and plans are to make some more and link the existing trails, said Trails Coordinator Luke O'Brien. The land stretches over Tripp Hill to the shore of Echo Lake, where there is one trail already.
When Ms. Spitzer first bought the land, most of it had been cut off with little old growth remaining. One of her goals was to improve its value for forestry as well as educational purposes.
Mr. O'Brien said there were, at one time, 30 kilometers of groomed cross-country ski trails, but they were too expensive to maintain as groomed trails. The new trails will be more likely ungroomed, basically self-service access to the land.
Logging roads will become available as trails as well, he said, for backcountry skiing and snowshoeing in the winter and hiking and horseback riding in the summer.
Mr. Benoit said the plans are to build a bunk house and more parking lots and access spots over time. There are three new kiosks with information and a map, and three more are planned.
The institute will be working with the land trust and local Audubon societies, Mr. Benoit said.
Ms. Spitzer lives in North Pomfret. She has a kitchen designing business called Design Discovery. She said the land is beautiful, but as an absentee landowner it's been difficult to keep an eye on it.
"There's a lovely swamp. And somebody was putting out half a cow carcass," she said, to bait coyotes to shoot. It's an activity she didn't like but it was hard to do anything about it from North Pomfret.
Donating the land is a win-win, she said.
"There is nothing I could have done with it that would be better," she said. "It's nice for me."
NorthWoods Operations Manager Jayson Benoit spoke on behalf of the center, and presented Ms. Spitzer with an ash walking stick. The NorthWoods Stewardship Center has four permanent full-time employees and other seasonal help. In the summer there are 80 people working at the center, including the Conservation Corp student workers.
He said the center is approaching its twenty-fifth anniversary and has recently developed a recreation plan and new mission statement.
After each brief speech on Friday there was a round of applause, which included enthusiastic barking by the dogs on hand. Two of them were Ms. Spitzer's golden doodles, which are half golden retriever and half standard poodle. They are named Milo and Hopper.
For more information, see the center's website: www.northwoodscenter.org
contact Bethany M. Dunbar at [email protected]
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FRANKFURT (Reuters) - Germany has secured 2,022 megawatts (MW) of the 2,540 MW emergency electricity capacity it needs to get through the winter, the energy regulator said on Monday, confirming a forecast that possible shortages were being managed.
Potential energy shortages will be a problem for years in German as nuclear plants in the south are being closed more quickly than grids are revamped, and the country also exports a lot of power at times of high supply, leaving certain inland regions with transmission bottlenecks potentially undersupplied.
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Police Blotter
Police last week were seeking a man who forced a girl, 12, into an elevator and down to the basement of a Walker St. building at 4:45 p.m. Tues., Nov. 13, where he exposed himself and forced the girl to touch him. The suspect was described as 6 feet tall, about 170 pounds, white or Hispanic, wearing black trousers and a black coat and speaking with an accent. After the incident, he forced the girl back into the elevator with him and fled when it reached the ground floor, police said.
E train iPod rob
A man and a woman robbed a victim, 19, of his backpack, wallet and iPod on a southbound E train at 3:50 a.m. Mon., Oct. 29, police said. The robbers got off at the Spring St. Sixth Ave. station and fled with cash and various items with a total value of $2,325, police said.
Robbery series arrest
Police on Thurs., Nov. 15, arrested Herbert Rodriguez, 35, of Sunset Park, Brooklyn, in connection with a series of armed robberies over the past two months of stores from the Lower East Side and the East Village to Soho and the West Village.
The robberies previously reported in The Villager along with a surveillance camera image of the defendant in last weeks issue included a Nov. 9 holdup of a clothing store at 85 Kenmare St., a Nov. 7 liquor store robbery at 171 Elizabeth St. and a Nov. 5 robbery of a doughnut shop at 140 Delancey St.
Among at least 18 robberies, Rodriguez is also charged with earlier holdups of a beauty salon at 120 Thompson St., a furniture boutique at 49 Prince St. and a grocery at 87 Allen St. Rodriguez was held pending arraignment this week.
Hotel scammer pleads
Kouadio Kouassi, arrested last December for trying to file a fake deed to the Soho Grand hotel, 310 W. Broadway, with the city Department of Finance, pleaded guilty Fri., Nov. 16, to attempted grand larceny. The city rejected the phony documents after checking with the Hartz Group, owners of the hotel, but the suspect made five attempts to file the phony documents before he was arrested. Kouassi is to receive a year in prison when he is sentenced Nov. 30, according to a plea agreement.
Soho strong-arms
Two men and a woman were arrested in Soho at 12:30 a.m. Sun., Nov. 4, after they pulled two strong-arm robberies, police said. The trio surrounded a victim, 25, on Greene St. between Grand and Broome Sts., forced him to sit on a stoop while they searched him and made off with his cell phone and wallet. Four minutes later they grabbed a visitor, 59, from Ohio and robbed him of $400 in cash. Police apprehended William James, 18, Marquis Chislom, 17, and Shareen Wesseling, 17, on Greene St. between Broome and Grand Sts.
Auto rage
A Brooklyn man told police that he had stopped at a traffic light at E. Houston and Mott Sts. at 4 a.m. Sun., Oct. 28, when a cab cut in front of him, damaged a fender and sped off to Howard St. and Broadway with the victim in pursuit. The victim got out and approached the cab but the cab hit him on the left leg as it drove off, police said.
Canal burglary
Burglars cut a gate and broke into the building at 357 Canal St. at Wooster St. sometime between 7 p.m. Wed., Nov. 14, and 8 a.m. Thurs., Nov. 15, made a hole in a wall of a storage room of Perfume Touch and made off with perfume and watches valued at $37,000, police said.
Car break-ins
Police arrested two suspects on Mon., Nov. 12, and charged them with breaking into three cars parked on E. Ninth St. near Fourth Ave. and stealing items with a total value of more than $1,000. David Marquez, 35, and Damien Montero, 26, were charged with smashing the window of one car, cutting the canvas roof of another car and breaking into the trunk of a third car before they were arrested.
Menacing arrest
Police arrested Yaru Nyerere, 52, of 324 Avenue C at 8 p.m. Sat., Nov. 10, for pulling a knife on a man, 42, in an office building at 37th St. and Eighth Ave. The suspect was carrying an unspecified illegal drug and was charged with possession, as well as menacing, police said.
Teeth thief
A resident of 71 Columbia St. in the Samuel Gompers Houses was returning to his apartment at 10:43 p.m. Mon., Nov. 12, when he found the lock broken and an intruder who burst out of the door and tried to bite him, police said. The victim, 39, called police who arrested Yvette Medina, 37, and charged her with ransacking the apartment.
Hardheaded fellow
Martin Kaplan, 39, was arrested at 2:20 a.m. Sat., Nov. 10, for breaking into a car parked on W. Third St. in front of Washington Square Village by butting his head against the rear window, police said. The suspect was charged with criminal mischief and larceny for stealing cleaning material from the back of the vehicle.
Albert Amateau
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Remember those rumors that said that the follow-up to the Moto X may be called the "Moto X+1?" Well it looks like they may have been spot on, as that name has been spotted on Motorola's own website.
When you navigate to Motorola's official website and go to the Moto X page, you can see the codename "FLEXR1" in the URL. However, it's been discovered that when you change the URL to "FLEXR2," the page name changes to include "Moto X+1." The same thing happens in Moto Maker, as you can see in the image above.
Right now these pages appear to be simple placeholders, so they don't reveal any concrete details about the Moto X+1. However, the fact that this name appears on Motorola's own website a couple of different times definitely adds credence to the rumors that the follow-up to the Moto X will be known as the Moto X+1.
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- May 12, 2010
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CategoryWeb Series Sketch Politics
Jen Kirkman: Today we're going to talk
about Frederick Douglass.
Jen Kirkman: The Union was falling apart.
The South was seceding.
Jen Kirkman: It was a very young country.
Jen Kirkman: Frederick Douglass was an
Jen Kirkman: and he believed it is morally
wrong to have slavery.
Jen Kirkman: And people were like, hey
Lincoln, this guy is talking
Jen Kirkman: a good game. You should meet
with him.
Jen Kirkman: And Lincoln wasn't a
Jen Kirkman: He's like, okay, I'll meet
with him.
Jen Kirkman: Frederick Douglass comes to
the White House.
Jen Kirkman: Senator Pomeroy is, like, da
da da! Abraham Lincoln, let
Jen Kirkman: me introduce you to Frederick
Douglass, a black, former
Jen Kirkman: slave. A good black man who
has some speeches. He would
Jen Kirkman: like to talk to you.
I'm not being prejudiced.
Jen Kirkman: I just...He's black, I'd like to let you know.
Jen Kirkman: And he was asking. He was
asking Frederick Douglass...
Jen Kirkman: ...what do I do about slavery?
What do I do about the black population?
Jen Kirkman: And Frederick Douglass comes
over to him. He's like, whew,
Jen Kirkman: Abraham Lincoln, I am
Frederick Douglass.
Jen Kirkman: I am a former slave who - and
he's like, shhhh, I get it.
Jen Kirkman: I know. I know who you are.
It's been explained to me.
Jen Kirkman: I've been following your
career forever. Be quiet.
Jen Kirkman: I'm into it. Let's talk.
Jen Kirkman: I will do more about him, but
I will lay down. (she lies
down on the couch)
Jen Kirkman: My legs are showing. (she
adjusts her dress to cover
more of her legs)
Jen Kirkman: I wanted to lose weight before this. Wait. Don't show!
Jen Kirkman: It's too white. I want to lay down and have a drink.
Voice (offscreen): Do you want a blanket?
Jen Kirkman: No! You know what
I'm gonna do?
Jen Kirkman: Frederick Douglass...
Jen Kirkman: ...he's like, guess what
Abraham Lincoln? I have to
Jen Kirkman: tell you three things. Blacks
should fight in the war. Two.
Jen Kirkman: Black soldiers who do fight
in the war should get equal
Jen Kirkman: pay as whites. Three. If
they're prisoners of war,
Jen Kirkman: don't fucking kill them. And
Lincoln's like, yeah, I think
Jen Kirkman: we can do this, but, I just
want to let you know, that
Jen Kirkman: I'm just into preserving the
Union. The thing about,
Jen Kirkman: about, about, about Richard
Jen Kirkman: What is his name? (laughing)
Frederick Douglass. I knew it
Jen Kirkman: was something similar. The
thing about Frederick Douglass...
Jen Kirkman: ...they were good friends.
And, he, and Frederick Douglass
remained an adviser
Jen Kirkman: to President Clinton for
Jen Kirkman: And word gets back to him
that, Abraham Lincoln is dead.
Jen Kirkman: Why do I feel like - I didn't
take my pants off or anything did I?
Voice (offscreen): No, you took your
shoes off.
Jen Kirkman: Cause I feel like I don't
have pants on. Oh, because
Jen Kirkman: I'm in a dress. But there was
a moment where I took my
Jen Kirkman: pants off. Okay good.
Jen Kirkman: A couple years later, they're in Washington DC, and they're
Jen Kirkman: like, alright, it's the Lincoln emancipation
Jen Kirkman: memorial, and then someone says, hey, Frederick Douglass
Jen Kirkman: is in the audience. He should speak.
Jen Kirkman: He's an orator. I mean this is his
Jen Kirkman: livelihood. And he gets up. So he did that for a
Jen Kirkman: while and he did a good job...
Jen Kirkman: And then I would go on and do
a good job. (laughs) Wait,
Jen Kirkman: that was different than that.
Jen Kirkman: He says, I gotta be honest
with you guys. Abraham
Jen Kirkman: Lincoln was a white man's
Jen Kirkman: Mary Todd Lincoln, Abraham's
wife, is there. And she was
Jen Kirkman: there when he got his head
blown off in the theater...
Jen Kirkman: She's a badass, but it
doesn't mean she's
Jen Kirkman: immune to feelings.
She's there.
Jen Kirkman: So he says, we had different views
Jen Kirkman: on slavery. We had different
views on the Emancipation
Jen Kirkman: Proclamation. We had
different views on the war,
Jen Kirkman: but he's a great guy, and I
respect him because he listened.
Jen Kirkman: Even if he knew he couldn't
fulfill my wishes, he brought
Jen Kirkman: me in and he fucking
listened. Nobody does that.
Jen Kirkman: Mary Todd Lincoln comes up to
him and goes, he would have
Jen Kirkman: fucking loved that. That is
exactly his style. She goes,
Jen Kirkman: Douglass, come here. I have
something for you.
Jen Kirkman: Now my head is shutting
Jen Kirkman: Mary Todd said, I want you to
have Abe's walking stick.
His favorite walking stick.
Jen Kirkman: Douglass was like, thank you
much for the walking stick.
Jen Kirkman: I'm gonna do my best to
preserve the honor of it and
Jen Kirkman: I just take it more of a
symbol as a friendship
Jen Kirkman: between you, me and your
Jen Kirkman: And then, he died a few
months later, doing what he
Jen Kirkman: loves. Sticking up for
Jen Kirkman: And you can't fault him for that.
Jen Kirkman: Did I need to do more story about them?
(instrumental plays)
Jen Kirkman: I have a mental illness, but
I don't.
Jen Kirkman: He's the father of the
civil rights.